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Chat Surgery

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Today I took the chat license quiz which really annoyed me because I took it FIVE times. It didn't really seem that hard until I got the results. I counted me wrong because I didn't give out my asl (age, sex, location). Well, I have news for you: If I don't give out my asl, that???s MY problem. Don't mark me up for being a little cautious. Editor???s Note: A very good point -- actually, I could swear that I told the programmers that very same thing when they were creating the test! Hmm???

Secondly, I thought the test might be a psychoanalysis thing to make sure you???re not crazy or something. Well, you may as well have well tested us on the Battle at Waterloo. Sheesh! I felt like I was in school! I mean, they asked me what kind of hat a City Worker (CW) wore. If I hadn't read the memo, I would have had no clue!

Also, they made their point a couple of times, over and over. There were "Report them if???" questions everywhere I turned! I get the point already! How are these repeated questions supposed to teach us anything?

I hated the trick questions. Couldn't you imagine kids asking their parents help, ending up with their parents doing the quiz? And they don't want their 'rents chat IQ!

But NOTHING compares to the "nah duhs." They just make you say, well, nah duh. I mean, EIGHT year olds know that it's creepy that adults go on chat rooms and pretend to be kids. Nah, duh!

So do us all a favor. Give us a test like a school shrink, not a brain surgeon.

 

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